Dreyer Tree » Hester Susanna van Niekerk Dreyer (1924-2004)

Day of marriage March 8, 1927

• The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
  • May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death July 3, 2004

• The temperature on July 3, 2004 was between 12.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 30.7 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
  • January 4 » Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
  • June 24 » In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
  • June 28 » Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
  • August 24 » 90 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
  • September 29 » Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 2001 » Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2004 » Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (b. 1941)